[Briquettes]

I just finished the new synthesis ending as well. While I didn't cry, I will admit that the last line of narration before the credits choked me up a bit.

When you discuss synthesis with the Catalyst, it says that it tried synthesis on it's own and it didn't work. I think it's fairly evident that it's referring to the creation of the reapers. Since then, it's kind of been doing a holding pattern until a new option comes available, made possible by Shepard joining with the beam. Very V'ger-esque. The thing that still irks me about that ending is that there was plenty of conflict between the organics that had nothing to do with synthetics, yet once everyone gets reformatted they all join hands and sing Kumbaya.